On to tomorrow night and I think Shrewsbury will be a tough nut to crack.
Heart says 3 points, head says I would take a point.
Orient, Rovers and Carlisle - all of them in the bottom half - cracked them in the past month!
If we're serious about competing for the automatics (and with the squad Manning's put together, the start we've had to the season and the relative weakness of this year's league, we should be), then this is the sort of game where 3 points is an absolute must. Shrewsbury will probably be solid and well organized, but results would suggest that they're not going to be very good.
On the team.....unless one of them has an injury, it would be lunacy to rest either McGuane or Cam. They've been awesome, and they'll get a two week break after the weekend. Maybe you can take them off on the hour if we're already three goals up by then!
I think Harris has been effective and dangerous enough that he comes back in, because he offers the pace and mobility that Bodin - as good as he is - doesn't have.
Then I'd probably like to see Mills & Murphy on the flanks as well - they're the most attacking of our currently fit options, and I reckon Murphy is due a start after the quality of his recent substitute cameos.......
That means you've got to choose between Bodin and Rodrigues for the #10 role. Which is very harsh on whoever misses out, but they can start at the weekend.....
So many choices for the back four and, frankly, none of them bad. We've got seven good League One players back there to choose from. Not sure that we've been in that situation in my Oxford-supporting lifetime!
